Blog – Page 11 of 11 – Light of the Azhar

Pictured (L-R): Sidi al-Hussayn (b. Abd al-Ghani), Shaykh Abd al-Ghani and Shaykh Muhammad Salih, during the annual procession of all the turuq in Egypt in commemoration of Sayyidina al-Imam al-Hussayn; from the mosque of Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari to the mosque of Sayyidina al-Imam al-Hussayn.

Seek Everything Through Salawat

Post published:February 11, 2021
Post category:Principles of the Path

Shaykh Muhammad Salih al-Ja’fari said: "All that you want or need, whatever it is, if you want Allah, Sublime and Exalted is He, to listen to you and your supplications, then it must go through the door of “Allahumma salli ‘ala Sayyidina Muhammad”. This is for all your wants and needs! This is our aqida and this is our belief." There was a man who…

The Awrad and its Bounties

Post published:February 10, 2021
Post category:Principles of the Path

Our master and shaykh of tariqa, Shaykh Saliḥ al-Ja’fari said: “Know that every shaykh of ṭariqa has remedies in his awrad for his murids, who are traversing his path; and in them are vitamins that strengthen and nourish [the murid]; and in them is a healing balm; and in them is that which guides the soul and strengthens the spirit. Whoever wants arrival, know, there is…

Foundations of the Path: Knowledge and Qur’an

Post published:February 9, 2021
Post category:Principles of the Path

"The Beloved ﷺ would guide the people with religious lessons and the Magnificent Quran, and our shaykh Ahmad b. Idris followed him in that, and he guides the people by the Noble Quran and 'ilm and he persisted in that until he met his Lord. I have asked Allah to make me in conformity with what our shaykh was upon. So it is necessary for our…

Shaykh Abd al-Ghani’s visit to the ‘Kaaba of Ilm’

Post published:February 8, 2021
Post category:Remembering Shaykh Salih

On an occasion, Sidi Shaykh Abd al-Ghani brought his family to Cairo to visit his father, Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari. Arriving at the Azhar; they came across the Shaykh al-Azhar, Shaykh Abd al-Haleem Mahmoud, who greeted them and asked what they were doing in Cairo; to which Sidi Abd al-Ghani replied “We came to visit the Kaaba of Ilm” – in reference to the noble Azhar itself. Shaykh…

Importance of the Sunnah

Post published:February 7, 2021
Post category:Remembering Shaykh Salih

Shaykh Dr. Fathi Hijazi, the head of the faculty of Arabic language at the Azhar university, shares a memory of his teacher, Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari; speaking with a man who declared that the Qur'an is sufficient and there is no need for the Sunnah. English translation in CC

Importance of Knowledge

Post published:February 7, 2021
Post category:Principles of the Path

“The Jaʿfarī ṭarīqa is built upon knowledge and erected upon the acquisition of knowledge and is spread among the people by means of knowledge. Such that its shaykh, Imam al-Jaʿfarī, made attending lessons of knowledge from among its awrād, which the disciples of the ṭarīqa preserve in their gatherings… The Shaykh clarifies, in a clear picture, that the seeker in this ṭarīqa will not have its…

Supplication by the Letters of the Qur’an

Post published:February 7, 2021
Post category:Supplications

Beautiful supplication of Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari about the Qur'an by the letters of the Arabic alphabet. Link has Arabic and English https://lightoftheazhar.com/files/dua_by_the_letters_in_Quran.pdf